How Relevant is the Turing Test in the Age of Sophisbots?
arXiv:1909.00056v133 citations
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This addresses a philosophical and practical problem for AI researchers and society regarding the evaluation of AI capabilities.
The paper questions the relevance of the Turing Test in the era of advanced AI systems, arguing that we are now at a point where technology can simulate thinking and feeling, prompting a need to reassess its implications.
Popular culture has contemplated societies of thinking machines for generations, envisioning futures from utopian to dystopian. These futures are, arguably, here now-we find ourselves at the doorstep of technology that can at least simulate the appearance of thinking, acting, and feeling. The real question is: now what?